Police issued a warning today after potentially dangerous tablets were found in a Middlesbrough street.

The prescription drugs had been dropped outside a house on Corncroft Mews, Grangetown, yesterday afternoon.

It is believed they were left by some local youths who had ransacked an empty house nearby.

Officers were alerted to the package of pills by a member of the public. The tablets are anti-depressants which contain sedatives and police are worried that if more tablets were stolen, they could be dangerous if consumed.

Children and adults who have been drinking alcohol would be at greatest risk if they took the pills.